March issues
Timothée Chalamet
How the film star turned into the young Bob Dylan. In the biopic of the year, Chalamet takes us on a trip to the Greenwich Village of the early 1960s
By Brian Heast
Marshall Allen
The saxophonist Marshall Allen is 100 years old, has been in the service of Space-Jazzer Sun Ra since 1958 and has just published his first solo album. A call to the jubilee from another star
By Tobi Müller
Marianne Faithfull
An appreciation of the great singer-songwriter (1946-2025). Plus: Ten tracks beyond “As Tears Go by” and “The Ballad of Lucy Jordan” that you have to know
By Robert Rotifer
California noir
Actor and photographer Thomas Kretschmann lives in the Hollywood Hills, witnessed the devastating fires and impressively documented the destruction
By Thomas Kretschmann & Jan Jekal
Gary Louris
Gary Louris is not a disciplined writer, but he is no longer just setting his flickering inspiration with his band The Jayhawks, but also solo
By Jörg Feyer
Roland Kaiser
He has been Germany’s most successful pop singer for 50 years – and committed to the right. Conversation with a phenomenon
By Sassan Nasseri & Arne Willander
The Mix
Inhaler
Strange love songs instead of politics: with Inhaler Elijah Hewson goes a different way than his father, even if he inherited his voice
By Birgit Fuß
Arny Margret
Power of the contrast: The Icelander wrote her urgent folk pop songs during a trip through the United States
By Marc Vetter
Nadia Reid
New ways: The songwriter Nadia Reid became a mother and has left her home in New Zealand
By Jil Delling
Horsegirl
In their loud debut in 2022, the musicians from Chicago were still teenagers. In the second plate they are surprisingly vulnerable
By Simon Vozick-Levinson
Q&A: Steven Wilson
The British Prog rock artist and producer about science fiction, artificial intelligence and XTC
By Fabian Broicher
History: “We are the world”
In March 1985, the single from USA for Africa, an initiative by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie was released
By Arne Willander
PLUS
Roller Derby, wants Stratton, Bartees Strange and more
Reviews
MUSIC
News from the cheerfulness and 86 other reviews
RS guide: Bob Dylan
Maik Brüggemeyer About a unique work
Film, series & literature
“Flow” and 18 other reviews
Playlist: Rare Trax in March
The British label Madfish recognizes the (overall) work of some giants with great box sets. A selection
1. Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band “Boo!”
This slightly clam-like piece is exemplary for the surreal avant pop of the English art student band from the Sixties.
2. The Pretty Things “Havana Bound”
Excess live version of the Rock’n’Roll song, which is originally on the sixth studio album of the British.
3. Laura Nyro “Dedicated to the one I love”
The great songwriter cried out this soul-pop classic with adorable melancholy in one of her late appearances.
4. Ian Anderson “Circular Breathing”
Happy, melancholic fascination, almost even more touching than on the studio work of the Jethro-Tull boss.
5. Wishbone Ash “Outward Bound”
In 1976 the British, which alternated between hard and prog rock, made this glowing performance in Tokyo.
6. Horslips “Trouble (with a capital t)”
With the live album “The Belfast Gigs”, the Irish celebrated their soulful Celtic Rock for the last time in 1980.
7. Fairport Convention “Rosie”
The elegant title song of the Fairport album from 1973, here in a rare live version from the 1980s.